I have come to the conclusion that my body works on a 26 to 28 hour cycle. Such a shame that the part of the world that signs my paycheques runs on the standard 24. Left to my own devices I'll stay up an hour or three later every night of the week. Efforts to convince my manager that this is an efficient way to run the office are so far fruitless. Next week we move from logic to bribery; I'll keep you posted.
Experimenting today with RSS feeds - I read a lot of blogs and so many of them have these RSS things now, so I figured it might be simpler. So far I'm liking FeedReader. It's incredibly easy to use (learning curve = flat) and has a nice simple old-school-email-gui look to it. It also sits quietly in my system tray instead of taking up yet another slot on my already over-crowded taskbar, which is a plus. Once I get the MT coding figured out, I might add a blogroll somewhere on here.
With regards to MT coding, that may not take as long as I was expecting. Like so many things based on good engineering principles, what looked incredibly complex and intimidating was simply not being explained well. The whole 'module-template-stylesheet' relationship was pretty murky until I read the idiot-proof step-by-step instructions for adding SiteMeter (the instructions were actually for MT 3, but I am thankfully clever enough on a good day to adjust for that small detail). "Oh," I said as the little overhead lightbulb went from 60 to 100 watts. "That's why it's set up that way." So expect changes soonish. Maybe Sunday. I am still technically employed fulltime, after all.
One link before I go to bed - some people will turn anything into a status symbol.
Experimenting today with RSS feeds - I read a lot of blogs and so many of them have these RSS things now, so I figured it might be simpler. So far I'm liking FeedReader. It's incredibly easy to use (learning curve = flat) and has a nice simple old-school-email-gui look to it. It also sits quietly in my system tray instead of taking up yet another slot on my already over-crowded taskbar, which is a plus. Once I get the MT coding figured out, I might add a blogroll somewhere on here.
With regards to MT coding, that may not take as long as I was expecting. Like so many things based on good engineering principles, what looked incredibly complex and intimidating was simply not being explained well. The whole 'module-template-stylesheet' relationship was pretty murky until I read the idiot-proof step-by-step instructions for adding SiteMeter (the instructions were actually for MT 3, but I am thankfully clever enough on a good day to adjust for that small detail). "Oh," I said as the little overhead lightbulb went from 60 to 100 watts. "That's why it's set up that way." So expect changes soonish. Maybe Sunday. I am still technically employed fulltime, after all.
One link before I go to bed - some people will turn anything into a status symbol.
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